The following stylesheet can accept any group size..

You may run it as :
msxsl file.xml file.xsl group-size=4
(You may pass any value for group-size from the command line)

<?xml version="1.0"?> 
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" 
version="1.0">
 
<xsl:output method="text" /> 

<xsl:param name="group-size" select="3" />
 
<xsl:template match="/Parent">
   <xsl:variable name="n" select="count(node) - (floor((count(node) div 
$group-size)) * $group-size)" />
   
   <xsl:for-each select="node">
     <xsl:if test="(position() mod $group-size) = 0">
       group <xsl:value-of select="floor(position() div $group-size)" 
/><xsl:text> - </xsl:text>
       <xsl:for-each select=". | preceding-sibling::node[position() <= 
($group-size - 1)]">         
         <xsl:value-of select="." /><xsl:if test="(position() mod 
$group-size) != 0"><xsl:text>,</xsl:text></xsl:if>       
       </xsl:for-each>
       <xsl:text>
</xsl:text>
     </xsl:if> 
     <xsl:if test="((position() = last()) and ((position() mod $group-size) 
!= 0))">
       group <xsl:value-of select="floor(position() div $group-size) + 1" 
/><xsl:text> - </xsl:text>
       <xsl:for-each select=". | preceding-sibling::node[position() < $n]">
         <xsl:value-of select="." /><xsl:if test="position() != 
last()"><xsl:text>,</xsl:text></xsl:if> 
       </xsl:for-each>
       <xsl:text>
</xsl:text>
     </xsl:if>
   </xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>
   
</xsl:stylesheet>

Regards,
Mukul


"Kiran" wrote:

>  i have the following xml
> 
> <Parent>
> 	<node>a</node>
> 	<node>s</node>
> 	<node>d</node>
> 	<node>f</node>
> 	<node>g</node>
> 	<node>h</node>
> 	<node>j</node>
> 	<node>k</node>
> 	<node>l</node>
>  </Parent>
> 
> 
> Need to print in following format (into groups of two)
> 
> group 1 - a,s
> group 2 - d,f
> group 3 - g,h
> group 4 - j,k
> group 5 - l
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> Kiran